Christian Quotes

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.

Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.

The true Christian is a communicator.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The same is true of the Christians.

America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.

The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.

Every time we judge our brother in our hearts or worse when we speak badly of them with others, we are murdering Christians.

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

Put legs to your prayers

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.

Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.

Knowing you're a child of the creator of the universe changes everything.

How much are you worth? Jesus says, with his arms stretched out on the cross, "I'm willing to die for you, because you mean this much to me."

The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve.

As a Christian, you can enjoy life because your conscience is clear. You can enjoy life because you are secure within God's love.

Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.

... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger.

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.

Those of us who are Christians believe Jesus Christ is the only one who can redeem us.

Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.

Jesus, all for Jesus, all I am and have and ever hope to be. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands... For it's only in Your will that I am free.

The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.

I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.

The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.

My mom knows what it's like to keep a dirt floor clean.

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.